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> Those are entirely different orders of magnitude both when it comes to size and how much usefulness you lose. In modern storage backends like Victoriametrics
by isburmistrov 3y ago
> Those are entirely different orders of magnitude both when it comes to size and how much usefulness you lose. In modern storage backends like Victoriametrics a counter gonna cost you around byte per metric per probe. And as you emit them periodically, that is essentially independent of incoming traffic
I thought this argument was about whether wide events can be used for metrics or metrics is a completely different concept.
If we want to emulate metrics in events, we would also make them periodically independently of the traffic. Like emit them once in a while. Pretty much like Prometheus scraping works